#its very basic platformer with no objective but there ARE coins to collect and a slime to avoid. AND a moving platform

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followed a guide and it took me 2 days to make a game with 1.000 minutes playtime does any body want to play it and make sure i didnt mess up somewhere/everything works right

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Comparing Giants: Should You Invest in Scotiabank Gold or TD Gold

For Canadian investors considering a step into the world of physical precious metals, two major names often dominate the conversation: Scotiabank Gold vs. TD Gold. Both are trusted financial institutions with well-established gold programs, but which one offers the better option for your investment goals?

At 24 Gold Group Ltd., we’ve guided thousands of investors through these very questions. Whether you're buying for long-term wealth preservation, portfolio diversification, or protection from inflation, understanding the difference between Scotiabank Gold Coins vs. Gold Bars, as well as how TD compares, is critical to making an informed decision.

The Basics: Scotiabank and TD in the Precious Metals Market

Both Scotiabank and TD Canada Trust have long-standing reputations in the banking sector, and both have made significant moves into the physical gold market. Their gold offerings are accessible, secure, and widely trusted, but they are not identical.

Scotiabank Gold has been a prominent player in the bullion market for decades. It offers a selection of gold bars and coins through its ScotiaMocatta division. Meanwhile, TD Gold provides its products directly through TD Precious Metals, allowing online and in-branch purchases of gold coins and bars.

Scotiabank Gold Coins vs. Gold Bars: What’s the Difference?

When it comes to Scotiabank’s gold offerings, investors can choose between coins and bars. But the right choice depends on your objectives.

Gold Coins (e.g., Maple Leafs, sovereign coins) are ideal for investors who want:

Government-minted products

High liquidity

Recognizable and collectible value

Smaller denominations for flexible selling

Gold Bars, on the other hand, are generally:

Lower in premium per ounce

Preferred for bulk investment

Simple in design and storage

Often more cost-efficient for long-term holders

So, when debating Scotiabank Gold Coins vs. Gold Bars, consider whether you prioritize flexibility or value-per-ounce. Coins may cost more due to their minting and legal tender status, while bars offer a more economical approach for larger investments.

TD Gold: A Streamlined, Investor-Friendly Option?

TD Gold has gained ground recently thanks to its user-friendly platform and transparent pricing. TD Precious Metals allows for online purchases with clear rates, home delivery, and even insured storage. TD also offers both coins and bars, similar to Scotiabank.

TD Gold Bars are typically branded with the TD logo and meet 99.99% purity standards. TD also offers Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) coins, one of the most globally recognized gold coin types.

Where TD really shines is accessibility, its online platform offers a smooth, retail-like experience for purchasing gold, especially appealing to first-time buyers. However, the premiums may be slightly higher due to added convenience and branding.

Scotiabank Gold vs. TD Gold: Side-by-Side Comparison

Scotiabank Gold offers coins, bars, and RCM products, with purchases mainly in-branch and limited online. Premiums are moderate to low, especially on bars. The brand has a strong global bullion presence and offers limited storage via safe deposit boxes. Availability depends on in-branch stock.

TD Gold offers coins, bars, TD-branded, and RCM products. Buying is easy with fully online and in-branch options. Premiums are slightly higher due to convenience. While newer to the market, TD is growing in retail recognition. Storage is available through insured third-party vaulting, and real-time online inventory shows what’s in stock.

Which Option is Better for You?

Here’s where it comes down to preference:

Choose Scotiabank Gold if:

You want traditional in-branch buying

You’re investing in large gold bars for value

You prefer a more old-school, bank-centric approach

Choose TD Gold if:

You value the convenience of online purchasing

You’re new to gold investing and want a guided process

You prefer storage and delivery options with modern logistics

But remember, bank gold programs aren’t your only option.

A Third Option: Trusted Independent Dealers

At 24 Gold Group Ltd., we offer something the big banks can’t always match: personalized service, transparent pricing, and flexibility. While comparing Scotiabank Gold vs. TD Gold can be helpful, independent gold dealers like ours often provide:

Lower premiums on bullion

A wider selection of global products

Real-time pricing based on the live market

Flexible storage and delivery solutions

We also specialize in supporting Canadian investors with registered account rollovers, estate planning, and tax-efficient selling strategies.

Conclusion: The Right Gold Investment Starts with the Right Questions

Whether you're drawn to the history of Scotiabank Gold Coins vs. Gold Bars, the ease of TD’s online platform, or the personal touch of a specialized dealer like 24 Gold Group Ltd., your decision should reflect your investment goals.

Are you buying for liquidity or long-term storage? Do you want to hold physical gold or store it securely in a vault? Is brand trust more important than price?

By asking these questions and partnering with the right gold provider, you can make smarter, more confident moves in 2025 and beyond.

If you’re still undecided or want to compare offerings side by side, our experts at 24 Gold Group Ltd. are happy to help. Reach out today or visit us at our Toronto location to explore options that suit your unique financial future.

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Platformer Game Development

Edited on 5/4(April)/2024

I have found a lot of findings from the first-time experience of using Gdevelop for creating a game. There were many things I managed to pull off and many I could not.  I’m going to talk about things I managed to make into reality by seeing pictures.

Achievements and Learnings

1st picture: I was able to implement a very plain menu screen. The game can be started by pressing the left mouse button on start.

2nd picture: This is the main game component. The game is still in a very primitive form but functional. Here is the list of mechanics I successfully implemented in the game.

: Player character movement, including a double jump

: Some slime enemies to fight, they can also damage player

: A respawn area (red area) to prevent player character from stuck in falling

: Scoring mechanism by collecting coins and defeating slimes

: Goal flag as an objective for completing the game

:  Sound effect to be played when player collects coins

3rd picture: This is a screen that player will see if the player character successfully touches the goal flag at the right. Its style is basic as well and shows you the overall score at the end.

I found most of the programing aspects to be a lot more time consuming than I initially expected. Even the simplest thing such as turning the slime in another direction requires so much convoluted processes of setting up variables to each object. However, I had a lot of fun tinkering with codes to make them work, even though I had a lot of frustration through programming when I could not make them work correctly.

Inspiration from the Book

In terms of inspiration from the reading, I think my primary focus for this time was on formal elements over dramatic elements. Both of which appeared in chapter 2 of Game_Design_Workshop(Fullerton, T. (2018, pp. 31-56)). I feel that although it is not something spectacular, I managed to put some essence of the element into my game. In the book, the definition of the game was described as completing an undetermined goal with an uneven reward for players in a closed area alongside a set of rules to follow (Fullerton, T. (2018, p. 48)). In my game, there are rules such as player character lose life if a player fails to jump over the pit and it is a closed area apart from the reality. Competition might not be in my game as this is a single player game, but generally met the structure of the game described in the book.

Thoughts on Reading

If I have a chance to improve the game further from here, I would like to implement management of resources that was discussed in chapter 5 of the book (Fullerton, T. (2018, pp. 129-166)). Resource flow plays a crucial role in determining the difficulty of games in almost every genre of videogames and the reading made me think again about why some games feel more unbalanced while others do not.

Reference

Fullerton, T. (2018). Game design workshop : A playcentric approach to creating innovative games, fourth edition. CRC Press LLC.

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Ix Plays Video Games September Edition

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1. Frogun

Frogun is an adorable little 3d platformer. You play as Renata, the daughter of a pair of archeologists who has to venture into these mysterious ruins to find your missing parents. Armed with and accompanied by your best friend Frogun who is a frog shaped grappling hook.

I mostly like this game. The environments are fun to platform through, for the most part. At the end of every level you get a basic emblem for reaching the exit and then various accessories to that emblem for completing other tasks like collecting all the coins, finding some hidden collectibles, completing the level under a certain time or completing it without dying. It’s neat and I really liked filling out the emblems up until like world 4.

That’s around the point where you start needing to be able to perform this ability where you grapple to a wall or object and then turn and grapple to a different wall while in mid air. By the end of game I can do this like roughly 70% of the time. The timing and the precision aiming required to do this is managable but not managable reliably. It was at this point that I gave up trying to get the no death gems. I just could not execute this well enough to do so. There were some levels where just getting through them the once was frustrating enough with the amount that I had to redo every time I botched this one mechanic. And like, I could do everything else in the game fine. I was rarely ever killed by any other thing. It was just these chain grapples that I would inevitably fuck up on and end up falling into a pit and losing a couple of minutes of progress which I would dutifuly recomplete so that I could go and fuck up again in the exact same spot.

This game would benefit from like a little toggle in the menus somewhere where you can opt into a mode where falling into the abyss doesn’t throw you back to your checkpoint but puts you back on solid ground minus a health point or two. It would make the experience so much tolerable to have the slightest margin for error.

Like it’s a good and neat game up until the point where it just becomes intolerable and I still want to like it for its charm but know that this has at times put me in as bad a mood as back when I was playing Crash Bandicoot 1 last month.

2. Vectronom

I got this game in like a bundle thing somewhere and was hyped to play it like, oh shit it’s a new Kula World, but it’s not really that. It’s more sort of a rhythm game but where you have to traverse a cube around a series of areas to a beat. You can move outside of the beat but sometimes you’ll have to move along a path where only one block exists at a time and so getting the timing down is a necessity.

It’s pretty fun, even for me, someone who does not get along with rythym games. It’s not Kula World though.

3. Who Wants To Be A Hypnoslut?

A short hypnotic experience based around answering silly video game trivia questions and being lured down into trance. I’ve played games from this developer in the past and they always include ample warnings for the content and suggestions, an easy way to exit the experience and be counted back up if you’re feeling uncomfortable and inclusive language. It’s a pretty good experience.

4. Discolored

This game feels like it wants to be like a Myst, or something similar. I think that it has an interesting aesthetic and maybe even an interesting premise but even most of that is like implication. It’s a very ambiguous game.

You’re in some kind of office, colour disappears from the world, you look through a weird film viewer thing and you’re at a roadside diner somewhere and then you solve puzzles in the most dream logicky kind of ways and return colour to the world and eventually go back to the office again to see a map that implies you have more places to go to return colour to more areas. There’s a bit where a big eye looks at you from the sky.

None of it hangs together in a way that feels intentional. I can invent a narrative based around these events but it’s not IN the game. And the puzzles are extremely dream logic it just sort of feels like go around and try everything until something works.

5. Runner3

This is a rhythm based runner platformer kind of game, the sequel to BIT.TRIP RUNNER and Runner2: Legend of Rhythm Alien. It’s okay. The difficulty is fairly tricky to begin with and then ramps up significantly. Each level has two paths which are like basic normal path and then extra difficulty bonus path. For the first two out of three worlds I did do those bonus paths and generally was trying my best to be a completionist. By the time I hit the third and final world I just wasn’t really feeling it any more.

The thing I got tired of more than anything else was missing one collectible and in the couple of seconds it takes to ‘bonk’ yourself and go back to the last checkpoint i’d pass another checkpoint and thus if I wanted the full 100 gold/25 gems I’d have to restart the level, and when they’re as tough as these it just drains the motivation to be a completionist.

There’s some fun hidden stuff in here. Like there’s two characters unlocked at the start and you can unlock more by finding characters in levels (they’re usually off the main path somewhere) and then completing little tasks for them. It’s not something the game really directs you to do. But then the problem is that for any character who isn’t any of the two initially unlocked characters, the aesthetic is just gross. I unlocked like six different characters and didn’t want to actually play as them.

The game also has this thing where at the end of a run if you’ve got all the collectibles on that level you unlock this big cannon/scoreboard thing where you launch yourself to get some bonus points. The cannon sort of swings up and down and it’s based on timing where you hit when you launch yourself. If you get a bullseye then the level is considered + completed which is better than regular completed and it just feels arbitrary to me that like it’s like ‘oh yeah you did all the shit you got all the things now do this minigame and if you don’t get it exactly right you didn’t do the whole level as good as you could have’. I mean I guess it is based on timing and this is a rhythm game but I don’t think there’s like a beat to match for this in the same way as the levels, just learn the timing of this thing. Honestly I don’t think it really affects anything but it just felt irritating whenever it would happen.

I dunno. It’s not a bad game. Some of the levels do have some good variety and like in short bursts this kind of thing is still fun to play but I had my fill of it I suppose.

6. Sheepo

Sheepo is a really neat and cute little non-combat metroidvania. You are Sheepo, a little alien friend who has come to collect eggs from all the species on this weird little planet. Obtaining each egg allows you to transform into a member of that species temporarily and thus offers you a new way to traverse the planet and find your way into more nooks and crannies, find more secrets and rescue more critters. Cute and fun. Really good game.

7. Railbound

A cute little puzzle game about laying out traintracks to connect the cars of a train together. It’s one of that kind of puzzle games that really iterates on its ideas and explores all the different possibilities of its puzzle format. It gets more complicated as it goes with tunnels, switches and gates and more.

The game is mostly puzzles focused, there’s not really a story being told here. Each level ends with a snapshot, like a postcard, of the engineers running the train (a pair of extremely cute anthropomorphic dogs) and it is some very cozy vibes.

The only negative I’d say about this game is that the hint system doesn’t really work for me. They highlight for you positions and correct configurations of specific pieces of track, chosen at random. I’m pretty positive the tiles they show you are random because I quit one level after getting a hint due to irritation and then restarted it and was given different hint tiles.

There were some levels I got stuck on where essentially the entire way I was trying to solve them was wrong. I’d repeatedly try to iterate on my designs, which almost worked, without making any progress and when I did try to get some hints to help me showing me a random tile that doesn’t correspond with anything I’ve made really didn’t help direct me towards the correct answer.

8. Webbed

Cute little platformer game where you are an adorable little spider looking to rescue your partner and get revenge on a mean bird. Meet and befriend other adorable insects. Solve little puzzles and traverse perilous terrain by grappling around and spinning climable webs.

The only real problem I have with this game is when you have to do precise puzzles, like in the ants nest there’s lots of bits where you have to get a cog into its correct slot and the process of how to do this is kind of awkward and unintuitive. I still don’t feel like I really ever learned how to easily put a cog into a socket. Every time I had to was like a protracted slog of webbing the two things together in the hope that it would pull it into place.

9. Shovel Knight Dig

Some of the things I like least in video games: Redoing things I’ve already done, losing all my progress, being implicitly told that I’m not playing the game properly if I use accessibility features. 

Okay so like I used to like roguelikes, despite my problems with the basic format of the genre. I guess I don’t have the patience for them any more. Even with that said Shovel Knight Dig is a harsh roguelike. There’s very little you can do to upgrade yourself. You can’t get stronger/do more damage. You can get new armour that lets you take less damage but even that’s balanced around you won’t get anywhere near as many gems when you’re wearing it. You can unlock new things to find down in the well but you’re only unlocking the possibility of finding it. You still need to find it.

One of the gimmicks of the game is that each level has three cogs hidden throughout, get to the end of the level with the three cogs and a machine activates. Here you can choose food to eat for health or an item. But I never really felt like that was a choice. You don’t have a lot of health and you don’t get more health without being very lucky to find someone to sell you some more (and hopefully having the appropriate funds for it) so like if I wasn’t full on health I felt like I had to take the food every time. So the items I was unlocking I was pretty much never getting an opportunity to use them.

One of the other gimmicks of the game is that if you’re not Fast Enough for the game’s liking then a huge drill comes down from the ceiling and kills you instantly. It sort of comes on a retractable arm and sits in the middle of the room before honing towards you and its huge and kills you in one hit and it’s not designed in such a way that you can slip past it if you see it, as an incentive to keep you going. If it’s out you’re probably dead because it can just block the way forward. There’s no accessibility option to increase the delay before this thing shows up or turn it off completely.

One of the other gimmicks of the game is fuck you we don’t have to heal you after a boss fight. One of the other gimmicks of the game is in fact after a boss fight we might force you to fight like three golden knights at once while a fire guy fires fireballs at you.

The game does have accessibility options. You can give yourself more health, more chances for food, a higher number of gem drops and increased damage. I turned these on and was suddenly actually enjoying the game but if you play like this then the game will not give you achievements. I’m a wretched gamer and I live to carry out objective lists. Achievements are a big component of playing games for me. I probably won’t be touching this game again. It just feels like a waste of time. I can play the game in the default way and have an absolutely miserable time or I can make the game palatable as to how I’d like to enjoy it and have the game subtly insist I’m doing it wrong. I’d rather play something else.

That said the new characters have really good designs. I love the aesthetic. You can pet the owl.

10. Return to Monkey Island

I loved it.

A really fun game and an excellent capstone to the original trilogy.

I cried, obviously.

11. Splatoon 3 (PVP)

I almost never play competitive multiplayer stuff, competitive here meaning any person vs person multiplayer no matter how casually it’s treated. I genuinely think the last time I did was like one of the old assassin’s creeds where the goal was to blend in the crowd, mimic the ai, and then do an assassination on each other when you get the opportunity.

Oh no wait fortnight.

That doesn’t count when I was playing that I was laser focused on my objectives and other players were just an obstacle between me and whatever the fuck the story was supposed to be doing. For a game with no narrative fortnight sure does have a lot of story.

Anyway I tried some for Splatoon 3. It’s sort of a weird experience. Equal parts enjoyment and irritation. I always feel like I’m doing something wrong and sometimes genuinely I forget how to use whatever weapon I have whenever I see an enemy. I’d love to have the option to play against bots just as a game mode. I don’t know why games don’t have that option any more. Like in Fortnight they have bots, they just don’t let you do it as a selectable option.

Anyway this is Splatoon 3 and I just like painting the floor. My weapons of choice are any set of two guns, the very fast to charge minigun and the octobrush (??). I’m bad with all of them especially the brush but like in the single player campaign any level that lets me use the octobrush is like a gift. It feels so fun to use right up until I have to try to hurt an enemy who will not just stand still and let me do a hurt on them, and who will probably actually kill me before I can be aware of their existence.

Salmon Run is probably more my speed. I haven’t played as much of that. I really dislike the guy with the trash cans who wants me to throw the bombs into his trashcans. That’s not a great reason to avoid an entire game mode. I guess I just sort of forget it exists.

Maybe more about Salmon Run next month if I really get into it.

12. Splatoon 3 (Story)

The story mode is great. Being a completionist in it is not ideal.

I like the format. I like the little fakeout at the beginning, making your way down the crater and fighting that octopus man before the game opens up and you get an idea of how big the story is actually going to be, as well as some of the key mechanics.

I like the little explorable zones with little hidden treasures, though the use of power eggs to clear away dangerous ooze to open up new areas can be a little rough at the beginning. As you progress through the game the costs seem less steep and maybe it’s just because I’m a horrible completionist who felt the need to play each kettle with each available weapon (except in the couple that really felt like they were taking the piss) but it becomes much less of a concern by like zone 3.

I like the boss fights with the members of Deep Cut. I was pretty surprised that they were using actual named characters instead of just heres another weird octopus guy.

The worst missions were mostly the grind rail ones where you have to shoot targets as you pass them. Any time they tried to give me a crossbow for one of that type I just gave up there and then. Also one where it was just shoot x number of targets in this time limit the version where you have to use one of the terrible sniper rifles was torturous. I should have given up at some point but it was like sunk cost fallacy and I was there for god only knows how long. It wouldn’t have been nearly so bad if the sniper rifles had an ambient reticle that gave you some indication of where you were going to shoot when you weren’t charging.

Overall it was enjoyable, the only real detractions being things I could have avoided if I was better at directing my own focus. The conclusion was fun. I love the captain. I love those two mysterious squid girl agents. I love every character except captain cuttlefish... oh and the octopus guy I guess.

It’s a good video game.

14. Up All Night

Neat horror visual novel that does a really good job of conveying tension and uncertainty. One of its main themes is undergoing and recovering from trauma and it does a really good job on talking about these topics. It’s not super long, has about seven or eight different endings that branch from your decisions. And yeah, while horror visual novels aren’t usually my thing this one is really well done.

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Annotated Bibliography

Game Title: Beat Blader 3D

Genre: Music

Target Demographic: Everyone

Monetization: Free App

To be honest I got addicted to this game from the start. It’s like a combination of Guitar Hero and Temple Run with also addictive music. The design of the game is bright and kind of cyberpunk looking where the player has two swords and slashes cubes to create music. The idea is very original and was implemented by using ideas from other games and putting them together. The mechanics are simple to understand and the UI is easy to navigate. The main issue is not being able to stop the game and that really bothered me because songs are long and the only way to stop is by crashing against and object and watching an add to try again. There are also ads everywhere which makes the game a bit frustrating due to multiple stops every time you end or start a song. The game needs to remove the number of ads and add an option to stop the game anytime. The player can also unlock new player skins and weapons and the three-star goal keeps the game simple but enjoyable.

This is one of the titles that I would like to use as an example for my capstone project. I really like the implementation of the IU and the mechanics of the game which feel fluent and easy to recreate. I would probably take some ideas for the character creation that is futuristic and original.

Game Title: Color Roll 3D

Genre: Puzzle

Target Demographic: everyone

Monetization: Free App

The game is simple and easy to understand. It is about rolling this colorful roll and create the image that is above the rolls. The player also has the option for hints. Every 3 puzzles the player beats an ad will play but you also have the option to buy the game for $3.99 to remove all ads.  It is a very original concept for a puzzle that I have never seen in other games and I can continue where I left off anytime which is great. The slide mechanic is well implemented, and the design of the game is simple with icons that help the player beat the puzzle.

Game Title: Do Not Fall.io

Genre: Arcade

Target Demographic: Everyone

Monetization: Free App

This game is different from any other mobile game I have played. Its about moving this character around platforms and to avoid falling while playing against other players. The game is simple and only requires the player to move around. The character jumps when close to the edge of the platform. Very interesting concept for a competitive game. Every two games an add will play and the player collects coins for unlockable skins. I would prefer if it had better graphics because the design is not appealing and could look better.  

This would be my second choice for capstone ideas because after playing the game I realized that its fun and challenging but also rewarding. I would probably try to implement the character movement mechanic and the auto jump on edge for my project. This also gave me an idea for a multiplayer game about jumping on platforms and shooting the enemy players with movement mechanics.

Game Title: Foil Turning

Genre: Puzzle

Target Demographic: 6+

Monetization: Free App

So, the game is quite interesting because it is about creating objects from foil paper. First you shape the object and then you hammer it to make it more realistic. The player has the option to paint the object and to add textures before using it. The minigame are easy to play and once you beat them it will give you a trophy that also has the object created on it. I played a couple of mini games like bowling and throwing a hammer but after that I got bored because it is all about creating this object and throwing them against stuff. Also like the other games tested this game is full of ads everywhere which is very annoying. The mechanics are well implemented by using multiple gestures to create the object but very fluent. I would keep playing this game if it wasn’t for the number of ads.

Game Title: Scribble Rider

Genre: Action

Target Demographic: Everyone

Monetization: Free App

This is a racing game where the player builds its tires by drawing it on a canvas before the race stars. The player can continuously change the tire while on the race to avoid obstacles and to move faster to beat the opponent. It seems that it’s an online game and the player needs to win to ear coins and stuff like skins and collectibles. Fun concept but the drawing mechanics has already been used in mobile games. I did enjoy the game and was not bothered by the ads because they only appear before the race starts and there is an ad banner on the bottom. This game has a simple UI that is easy to understand and the graphics are not bad. I would add more options for races and maybe a racetrack builder to make it more interesting.

This is my third choice for a game example because the mechanic for drawing your tires is vary amazing and unique. I would totally try to implement something similar for the players vehicle, but I also would have to find more information for this mechanic as I have no idea on how to code this drawing tool. Also, I like the platforms implemented which are very animated and I could use them on my game.

Game Title: Emoji Puzzle!

Genre: Puzzle

Target Demographic: 10+

Monetization: Free App

This game is about dragging a line to connect images with the one that makes more sense. Its only about dragging lines and connecting image and there are also special levels where you drag the image and place it next to the ones that are similar. The game is not challenging and needs more than just connecting images to make it more fun. The design of the game is boring and does not offer much for the player to keep going. The lack of content also makes this game not appealing because it does not offer much other than going forward on levels. I don’t like the fact that its an emoji game and felt that games like this would fall short due to the lack of imagination. Its just a game that will never be great or taken seriously because of its main design.

Game Title: Who is?

Genre: Puzzle

Target Demographic: 10+

Monetization: Free App

The game gives you two similar options to choose from to answer the question. The player gets 50 hints that can be refilled by watching ads. I had a hard time selecting my answer because apparently the touch gestures are not well implemented or maybe the developer forgot to add a tutorial for selecting the option if its either touch or swipe. The game is fun, and the UI is simple but also has a good level of challenge which kept me going. Even after struggling with the controls I found this game fun and interesting and would add a tutorial but also a fix for selecting the answer. The game does not have much content for me to talk about and the mechanics are broken making it a less appealing game than the others I tried.

Game Title: MultiCraft – Build and Mine!

Genre: Adventure

Target Demographic: 10+

Monetization: Free App

This is basically a free to play Minecraft game with less to offer and terrible virtual controller. The game suffers from frame drop even thought I am playing on a Galaxy note 9 that can handle heavily intense games. The game allows you to destroy, build, fight monsters, and collects items or weapons. The difficulty is random and depends on the monster you encounter, and the player can go underwater but needs to avoid for the air bubbles run out because if not the player will die.  The player has a bunch of hearts to start off to fight monsters but also the player starts in a very random areas when creating a new world. There is nothing telling me what to do or any type of objectives, so it’s rather confusing because I don’t really know what to do.

Game Title: 6six9ine Runner

Genre: Music

Target Demographic: Teen

Monetization: Free App

This game is like Beat Blader 3D which is a runner with music but less appealing and has a creepy looking character. The player has the option to play with others and to collect skins and weapons, but the game contains less content than Beat Blader 3D and has ads everywhere on the screen. The UI is confusing and getting new music is harder because money takes forever to collect unless the player watches ads. Mechanics are good and easy to control also its less challenging then Beat Blader 3D and graphics are just not good. The game should improve the actual design and fix the UI to make it more understandable.

Game Title: Puppy Town

Genre: Casual

Target Demographic: Everyone

Monetization:  Free App

Not sure what the purpose of this game is but its about unlocking dog breeds. It works by dragging two dog images of the same breed together to create a new breed and to keep waiting for the timer to go off for unlocking more dogs to combine. It’s about leveling up but there is no challenge or main side objectives other than watching ads to unlock dogs faster. The game is addictive even though it lacks many components of a game and reminds me of the examples we got from comparing toys against games. This game is nice, but it does not feel like a game or puzzle which could be improved if adding mini games of something else other than just combining dogs to get new breeds. Also, this seems to be one of those make money games that are fake.

This would be my fourth choice because I did like the rewarding feeling when getting a new breed on the game. I could implement some type of collectible that would require fusion to create and used for either armor, weapons, or both. I feel that the idea for this game falls more into an extra mechanic for a bigger game and that would keep the player interested on the item system of the game.

Game Title: Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells

Genre: Puzzle

Target Demographic: Everyone

Monetization: Free App

Game is like Candy Crush and it’s all about moving pieces of the same color and putting them together. This one has a Harry Potter theme with lots of content and items to purchase that will help you unlock more levels. This type of game is fine but not my type as it feels endless and repetitive. The animations and the design of the game are great with excellent UI and very clear icon descriptions. The game also has multiple powers that help destroy multiple crystals faster but the player needs to watch out for the limited number of moves. There is challenge and excitement when unlocking new levels due to the great art and animation of the game.

This would be my fifth choice because of the UI being very appealing and it give the player the feeling to see what is available in every option. The game incorporated a great reward system for exchanging coins to get power ups and use them on levels. Also, the transition between panels is great and keeps the player interested due to the great design of each element on the screen.

Game Title: Toca Life World: Build stories & create your world

Genre: Educational

Target Demographic: Everyone

Monetization: Free App

Unique game where the player can enter buildings by selecting them and once inside there is multiple objects to interact with. The player can create its own characters and collect skins around the world. I like that the map can be moved around, and the design is very appealing with a Japanese look. You can also build around the world and add stuff to houses or buildings. It reminds me of the Sims but in a 2D form with many interactable objects. Everything is self-explanatory with an easy to understand UI and simple mechanics. Overall, I enjoyed playing this game and created around seven characters. Also, playing around the level is fun because you can combine stuff and change characters appearance which makes the game fun but also the design of everything kept me interested on the game.

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How to create a cryptocurrency

1. Introduction Since the visual appeal on the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin last season, there are a lot of people who demonstrate interest in creating a cryptocurrency. Either out of interest, or perhaps with the firm motive of competing inside the ecosystem. Regardless, the particular idea of creating some sort of cryptocurrency is very stunning. But initially this has been very difficult to accomplish. In particular since this expected extensive understanding of programming in addition to cryptography. Although currently, there are various tools and even projects that let you to create cryptocurrencies in a very easy way. This best proof of this is often seen in the tremendous level of cryptocurrencies and tokens which exist today. Each involving these projects using their own qualities. Some more groundbreaking than others, but most based on the same rule, blockchain technology. Effectively, in this article we shall expose step by step everything you need so that you can generate your own cryptocurrency. We shall guide you by means of this process so as to recognize the most important things guiding large cryptocurrency projects. Although above all, therefore you can create your current very own and learn extra about this wonderful earth. So, we invite you to definitely join us on this particular interesting journey to make your own cryptocurrency. Keep reading: Cryptocurrencies: what these people are and exactly how a digital income works 2 . not First measures to create your cryptocurrency Before starting your venture you must take into account some sort of collection of features of consideration. Initial of all, you have to have a clear concept of what you desire to do with your own cryptocurrency project. After all, cryptocurrencies seek to revolutionize this world and in that will sense, what does your own personal project offer you? In limited, be clear about the principle, vision and objective of your project. This initial step will assist you to get your own project on track. It will also help you focus your initiatives to reach a customer foundation that can easily benefit from your venture. As well as create a group all-around that. Creating a project with a well-defined purpose and a neighborhood that supports it, might allow you to make a good bottom of rely on. This is very significant, given that trust in the world of cryptocurrencies is usually important. Think about that, Bitcoin is actually it will be today, thanks to typically the trust that millions involving people have put in it. Why would your own cryptocurrency project be different? Therefore, the second factor you should do is transmit plus prove to everyone the fact that they can have confidence in your own project and what the idea offers. Lastly you is going to also need to have knowledge about the way cryptocurrencies work or maybe get a team of people who may help you within this undertaking. This last aspect can be essential to make the particular project progress at a good tempo. Cryptocurrency technologies changes by way of leaps plus bounds and relying along third parties to move onward generally ends in project abandonment. So possessing your individual staff and talent may not only help you improve the venture. Although at the same moment, it will permit you to change it to new options and needs that occur. This without counting parts such as security and even maintenance regarding systems that will are also important. If you are already clear about all the above, then you now have the basics to start out your project. So why don't continue our journey therefore you learn how to make a cryptocurrency. 3 or more. Programs to create cryptocurrencies To start creating your own online foreign currency you should recognize that you have, largely speaking, a few options. This first and the least complicated of all is to be able to use some sort of software. That will let you to be able to create your own blockchain and the connected cryptocurrency. The use of this kind of podium greatly helps this job. In fact, in a few a few minutes you may have your own cryptocurrency working completely. Of program, these platforms are usually minimal in terms of their choices and capabilities. But they do not stop getting a great interesting choice to understand about technology or perhaps generate a very specific application. A good example involving this type of program can be seen in Wallet Builders. This specific is a website the fact that permits you to produce a new blockchain together using an associated cryptocurrency within some sort of couple of clicks using your web browser. Often the second option is to be able to make a token that works on an additional presently set up blockchain. It can be a technically even more complex option but with increased possibilities. By choosing this choice you can use the mature blockchain project to support the procedure on your token. Options like Coloured Coins that work about Bitcoin, or Ethereum, NEO, TRON, EOS or Waves tokens fall into this category. Of course, every single case has its particularities and you must select the one which best fits your needs. It may possibly desire you: What is a good ICO? The third and last option should be to create your cryptocurrency immediately from scratch or based about the code of a single already created. Since almost all cryptocurrencies are free software, it is completely possible. You just simply have to content often the code of the cryptocurrency and modify it based on your needs. It is the most complicated selection, but also the most highly effective of all. This in addition to enabling you to know just how to create a cryptocurrency from scratch. In typically the case that worries all of us in this article, most of us will utilize the Wallets and handbags Designers platform. This kind of because this is the simplest associated with all along with the one the fact that you can implement without having major inconveniences. Four. Begin creating your own cryptocurrency together with Billfolds Builders Today, as mentioned before, most of us have chosen Wallets and handbags Building contractors for this experience intended for various reasons, among which usually we can detail: That is straightforward to use plus its access can be carried out by way of the web.

The development of a cryptocurrency will not necessarily entail advanced programming regarding any kind. Will allow you to configure a variety of selections. Among them the particular comprehensive agreement protocol, logo connected with our project or perhaps pre-completed. Delivers access to the cause code. This allows people to further improve our project autonomously. Inside improvement to aiding you understand how to make the cryptocurrency by 0. That offers billfolds for Windows and GNU / Cpanel platforms. Now that we know some connected with the features of Wallets Constructors, it is moment to go to their site and get to know this podium. To be able to do this, just click on this hyperlink, in addition to you can reach typically the main web site of that software. Once there we will start with the procedure of creating your individual cryptocurrency. Step # one: Start out your project The very first step that Billfolds Designer directs us all to generate a cryptocurrency is in order to the essential data of each of our project. Inside our particular situation, we have decided on the particular Free plan. In addition , many of us selected the PoW opinion protocol, based on the SHA-256 hash function. Typically the latter could be the same choice that Bitcoin offers people, a safe start out regarding our cryptocurrency. Starting this method you will begin to understand how to produce a electronic currency by following some simple steps. Action # a couple of: Details of your cryptocurrency The next thing will ask us in order to determine the name of the particular cryptocurrency and even it has the mark. For this illustration, we have decided to identify this cryptocurrency " Coingraph " and as a good symbol we have defined " CGH ". In both cases, you can pick the ones that you prefer the most. However, anyone should consider giving it a good original name and the unique symbol. That at order to avoid the fact that people can befuddle your own project with an present one. In the circumstance of the " Deal with Letter " we currently have found the letter very well D ". This methods that the addresses of our cryptocurrencies will most start with the notice C. With this most of us unequivocally identify that the idea can be a Coingraph deal with. Came at the choice " Coin Unit ", we now have decided to put typically the name regarding "graph". That makes mention of often the tiniest possible unit connected with the cryptocurrency. In this specific way, our coingraph gold coins can be divided upward to seven decimal locations, where the tiniest device is a new graph. This is a good default selection on all cryptocurrencies. For instance , a new bitcoin is divided up up to a optimum of eight quebrado spots, and the smallest potential model is called satoshi. Last but not least we come for you to the " Spoken timestamp " option, a possibility exactly where we can place typically the concept that the 1st block of our cryptocurrency is going to have. You can write down thier one you like the particular most and identify with your project. Step # 3: Establish the standard fiscal variables of your own cryptocurrency With this position, you should define several very significant variables. The first of these is the " Prevent Reward " as well as prohibit reward. This specific value appertains to the reward of which miners may acquire regarding the successful gold mining of each block of the cryptocurrency. In this scenario, we have decided in order to let it stay from a cost of 50, which means for each block, miners should receive 100 Coingraph as a new incentive. The next niche is called inch Stop Halving " which is of fundamental importance. This cost tells us how quite a few hinders the block compensation will likely be divided in 1 / 2 by a process called halving. The reason behind this reduction in reward is usually to maintain the issue managed. Remember that in case all of our cryptocurrency suffers from higher emission, this will trigger the value to decrease. Conversely, if your issue is definitely very small, miners will receive little profit in addition to lose interest. In sometimes case, deciding on a good spot regarding block halving is essential to the economy of our own cryptocurrency. Taking this into mind, you must choose the value of which best compliments your needs. It could interest you: What is halving? The block praise and their impact in Bitcoin The last value is called " Tableau supply " and appertains to the total amount of gold coins which is released. In Wallets and handbags Builder this value can be dynamically controlled by the Block Reward and even Obstruct Halving values you have selected. The particular reason for this is definitely to ensure that the particular emission maximum is definitely not too small and permits the cryptocurrency to produce. Action # 4: Fixing typically the coinbase and block generation Now we possess reached a critical point within the options for you to create the cryptocurrency. With this point the primary alternative in view is micron Coinbase maturity ". This method is used to signify the number of certitude necessary for miners to help spend their particular rewards. Cryptocurrency miners receive their benefits in a new special deal called the coinbase purchase (not to be confused with the Coinbase company). This particular coinbase transaction is generated simply by the same miners. It serves to obtain the stop reward like well as the expenses or perhaps commissions of every single financial transaction processed in stated block. Because it is created simply by the miners on their own, delaying the claim for all these finances helps two issues: Prevent the miners from generating blocks for almost any cause, collect the coinbase and then reject the prevent. Prevent miners from bringing in an outlawed coinbase and collect this. As a person can see, that price is essential for basic safety, so choosing a superior value is a good concept. To get a clearer concept, in Bitcoin this value is 100. Because of this miners can only state his or her profits after exploration one hundred more blocks. Typically the next discipline is known as " Numbers of confirmations " and suggests the number of confirmations necessary to consider a transaction as irreparable. However, the value connected with six that the program gives us is exceptional. Following we have the particular field " Focus on space in minutes ", which indicates the time it is going to take to my very own every block. With this time most of us will say that every single 5 minutes, our Coingraph cryptocurrency ought to generate a brand-new block. And finally we now have " Target timespan around minutes ", with which will we are going to signify the moment in which the exploration difficulty will be altered. In your example we have got pointed out that hour the difficulty will be altered. Step # 5: Polishing off the creation process Simply by choosing the free choice, typically the Wallets Builders podium will not allow us to be able to customize the particular company logo of our project, although to be able to create and test it. To make this happen you must move to the email an individual registered in the initially step and even open the link they have put you. Once you simply click on this kind of link a person will access a good -panel like this: From presently there you possibly can review all this cryptocurrency alternatives you now have created. The next action is in order to download this wallet for the operating program you are using. In this case, the options provided by means of the platform automatically will be a wallet for Home windows and GNU / Apache. Step # 6: Putting together the wallet and mining the first block Last but not least the past step to adhere to is to change our miner and start applying our cryptocurrencies. To accomplish this you must follow the particular following steps: Primary operate the wallet computer software, inside this case the brand is coingraph-qt. Once an individual run it you will see typically the miner's interface. In that case move to the Help menus and select " Debug Screen very well. Once there choose the micron Console inches option. Once you are usually in the console alternative, you must write that order: addnode node1. walletbuilders. junto de add Once an individual finish publishing the command, press the Enter key. Then work this demand generate 1 Wait the moment and you is going to be given a good notification following successfully mining the 1st block on your new cryptocurrency. Best wishes, typically the cryptocurrency a person have created functions together with is alive. Also read more about Cryptocurrency Exchange Software

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Augur Rep Wallet

In 2019 the cryptocurrency sector will go on its evolution. While its early years have also been centered by almost fully speculative trading, as typically the market grows, a digital asset�s �fundamentals� will come to be increasingly significant as value indications. BNC�s 'Alt-Coin Contenders' collection introduces property with basic characteristics the fact that set all of them apart from their very own rivals and justify their particular inclusion in any investor�s �ones to watch� list. From an investment standpoint, valuing corporations is typically done getting time honored formulas just like price to earnings and cost to book proportions, PEG measurements and dividend promise. In the crypto space, nothing of these methods utilize directly � plus option traders still wrestle with how best to allocate a new value to electronic digital investments in a nascent market that is sentiment influenced and even characterized by outdoors volatility To that finish, the purpose of this particular 'Alt-Coin Contenders' line is to distinguish specific investments that BNC analysts need identified as obtaining important characteristics that in typically the very least, rationalize traders which include them in the 'ones to watch' catalog. The selections are produced dependent on a good range regarding requirements - things just like hashrate or maybe an raise in on-chain transactions. As well as usage metrics for application tokens and the size and commitment of a great asset's 'community'. Or obvious liquidity � significant change listings in addition to fiat on-ramps. Exposure to potential legal action is also crucial, as are the persons behind the scenes � inspiring frontrunners with 'rock star' social media reputation, or on the other hand, big-time economical backers with deep storage compartments and even some sort of track report of achievement. No single tool will tick every single box, and some will mark more than others, but what this series aims to help do is move readers beyond simplistic FUD, FOMO and speculation � and even introduce the range connected with fundamental token attributes which should become recognized value symptoms as the market ages. Augur: Building a great n-sided marketplace Augur (REP) is usually a decentralized prediction person vs customer betting industry that is designed to outlook and speak the outcome of the celebration based on a majority consensus principle. Customers partaking in an Augur betting on marketplace find themselves competing from peers on this network to finish on this right side associated with predicting an occasion outcome. Typically the key defining factor from the Augur blockchain is decentralized event/oracle reporting. Oracles, consumers on the network, record the results of events signed up in the network using Augur's entirely automated, motivation aligning standard protocol, that ensures poor celebrities are ensnared and end users can dispute unjust effects. Users place bets with questions like 'Will Donald Trump be impeached by simply December 25th, 2018? ' (an active market) with either ETH or even the platform's native token, REP. The marketplace creator originally sets probabilities 50/50, 80/20 etc) and the numbers alter as table bets roll within. The 'will Jesse Overcome be impeached' choice, with regard to instance, currently rests from the 5% probability of developing with ETH fifty-one. five worth of open up attention. The market creator selects a 'designated reporter' who reports on the aim outcome of an affair. The ASSOCIATE token represents 'reputation'. People are honored REPETITION once they report an affair and it matches way up to the agreed consensus of additional reporters. This is the incentive based process, if an oracle misreports a good event�an objective true or perhaps false output�then typically the rest of the industry makes note of this awful reporter and punishes these individuals. For betters, often the Augur platform offers a new number of benefits more than a new traditional central bets market service made available from large centralized entities such as Betfair of betdaq or PaddyPower. There may be freedom for users to produce any kind of market they want, thereby let other users figure out if it is a new feasible playing prospect. Blockchain based informed written agreement settlement has the potential to greatly lessen the cost and time to settle multiple bets all over a lot of marketplaces, The permissionless character of Augur (funds and transactions secured together with confirmed based on the Ethereum international account) lets customers in virtually any region take part in previously unavailable safeguarded marketplaces. I. e. A good Ethereum case in Most of asia can make speculative table bets on US companies inexpensively, with minimized chaffing, in a way not feasible before industry like Augur existed. Regarding oracles, Augur event confirming provides a good opportunity to participate in the n-sided marketplace. Which means that any person can provide their homogenous service to almost any additional user and the particular environment can continue to support a lot more workers in case demand regarding their services expands coming from the other side of the marketplace. Because of these kind of characteristics, Augur has usually been known to like the 'Uber connected with crypto'. The environment in addition operates more successfully with more oracles, meaning wider representation plus more views on a good occasion result, increasing this likelihood of fair gamble final results. Transactions over the particular Augur Dapp are satisfied on the Ethereum blockchain through complex smart-contracts. Throughout this sense, functionality and efficiency of the Augur relies on block occasions and Gas fees associated with the Ethereum network, which usually has multiple alternative reasons affecting it.

Augur inside of 2018: Price problems nonetheless growth across specific metrics Like many other Ethereum based application tokens, REP's price performance has also been disappointing despite significant strides in product development in addition to maturity. It is at this time down ~95% from its all time high attained in mid-January, investing at ~$6 having recently bought and sold above a hundred buck. A great deal of this price destruction occurred in the extra half of the yr. The Augur Dapp experienced a significant main network transition in the ninth This summer. This token was able to manage some price levity according to speculative assessments coming from list traders leading up to, and around typically the schedules of mainnet change. Augur's vastly improved standard protocol in addition to dispute resolution process introduced in the lead up to the establish added to this shopping for force. The hype and even constructive speculation lasted until finally the sixth of This summer when Augur traded on some sort of high of ~$42, post this specific date Augur has been with a deeply slide towards minimal individual digits that has persisted over 5 months. Augur Wallet : REP- 1 season price chart, Source Bravenewcoin. com Post-mainnet launch typically the Augur platform is a far more complex, basically strong and consumer-ready app than it was throughout January, yet price/value features moved inside the opposite course. This is trait connected with immature and volatile crypto markets, dominated by full price buyers who are likely in order to trade on feeling, because opposed to letting essential variables play out. Seeing that such, price was probably too high in the height of the bull function together with presently sits too low approaching new feet in the on-going bear market. Figure two: Expansion in the total balance of ETH in the particular Augur platform. Source: www.curiousgiraffe.io/augur/ Shape 3: Growth in the count of trading markets created and even completed on the Augur podium. Supply: www.curiousgiraffe.io/augur/ As in December 17th, there was above 12, 600 ETH closed into Augur betting stores with over 1600 areas created and 700 finalized (figures 2&3). These crucial metrics have revealed steady upward momentum over the particular last a few a few months, showing a growing excitement intended for the platform. This basic has not also been shown in the ASSOCIATE price, even so. This kind of considered, very few of these markets are active or even solution, along with most action happening with very specific situations adjoining the yr stop value of electronic digital assets. The vision of Augur learning to be a completely peer-to-peer betting current market, where any user can certainly gamble on any worldwide occasion, with automatic negotiation by means of objective reporting confirmed by consensus, has yet to obtain scale or mainstream meaning in a way that Dapps like Cryptokitties have achieved in this past. An incident study inside the efficacy on the Augur platform in 2018 Typically the Augur decentralized consensus had been recently put according to important stress when looking to pay a new market to get 'Which party will handle this House after the 2018 Ough. S. mid-term polls -- Democrat or Republican? The particular Democratic party acquired the particular election, but the particular market conclusion date has been 12 10th. Because often the date was not specified in the market as well as the standard expiration date for the gambling marketplace was 12/10/18, quite a few claim that Republican is the particular correct outcome as typically the Democrats usually do not officially get control of the Home right up until January 3rd 2019. There exists over $1 trillion tied in to this marketplace, with large volumes of prints with either side of the guess. The question is clearly uncertain and a 'code is law' argument could favour this Republican part of the choice, even so, most thought these people were voting on the results of this election or will not have voted with regard to any get together other in comparison with Republican. 90% with the gamble in the market supported a Democratic win. Nonetheless, Augur Wallet seems that the designated media reporter for that event (the oracle selected for reporting responsibilities by simply the market creator) will be taking viewpoint that code will be legislation, and Republicans were being around the control of often the House around the termination meeting despite burning off the selection. This means that all of Democrat backers will reduce their very own stakes, and this minority favouring Republican will win the particular bet about a technicality. The big event provides been a good useful example on both the benefit and clunkiness of developing a good decentralized playing marketplace. In the watertight multi-billion betting houses that control the sports betting planet, unclear markets like that would never have seen often the light of day. Even when they did at any time confront much the same uncertain outcome, 'centralized' support services protocols would deal with any kind of issues. What features already been commendable is typically the transparency together with discussion all-around this issue and the determination of developers in addition to end users to prevent similar scenarios in the future. Onchain fundamental signals NVT transmission Figure five: REP NVT signal plus price. NVT signal calculated with records from Coinmetrics. io. Modified onchain transaction volume employed for NVT indicate Taken from the NVT rate, the NVT signal can be a responsive blockchain worth metric developed by Willy Woo in addition to Dmitriy Kalichkin. Crypto trading markets are vulnerable in order to bubbles of speculative acquiring, definitely not backed up simply by underlying network performance and even activity. This NVT signal provides quite a few information into what stage of that price cycle a new small may be in. An increased NVT signal is a sign of a good network which is going through one associated with these bubble durations, and could move in direction of a good position of becoming overbought/overvalued, as a result of market's speculative assessments running out of steam. The go up in using the Augur betting platform over typically the last 3 months offers coincided with a sharpened fall in this NVT signal (Figure 5). That has lead to a position in which REP is usually likely close to a great oversold inflection point, and even assessments of being initial undervalued. The token, whenever it detects a bottom level, may be able in order to develop its recent network pastime to push off strongly. As described, that appears that Augur platform's recent strong fundamental worth has not but already been costed into INDIVIDUAL, as soon as it will that is probably that quite a few positive brief term price performance can come with it. Alternative points such as a good reversal in the bigger bearish opinion surrounding crypto and some other speculative elements specific to REP, might deflate or perhaps inflate virtually any price moves driven by a bounce from the bottoming out NVT signal. It is usually Important to make note of that even though much of the task in the Augur program features ETH tokens, some sort of more energetic Augur podium with more table bets made with ETH increases the practical of the REP token and definitely will likely comments into a lot more onchain mobility of ASSOCIATE, as oracles observe additional opportunities in order to generate earnings. PMR indication Figure 6: REPETITION PMR signal and value. NVT signal calculated together with files from Coinmetrics. io. Effective addresses^2 used to reflect Metcalfe value. PMR figures in natural log variety. Metcalfe's regulation is some sort of measure of connections in the network, as established simply by Robert Metcalfe this head honcho of Ethernet. It has subsequently been used to evaluate the true value regarding network-based financial products like Facebook or myspace and Bitcoin, and simply by comparing it to help cost, can provide some sort of useful gizmo to examine whether the token is over as well as undervalued. It is furthermore a more straightforward metric to implement versus onchain transaction volume level, which can be challenging to evaluate accurately within USD terminology. Addresses are measured as the number of distinctive sending and receiving address starting transactions daily. In the past, lively address growth has usually been low regarding REP tokens. Active tackles around the network have in no way realized 3252 unique customers with a day and proportioned ~401 users some sort of working day on the interval from typically the 26th of August to help the seventeenth of January. This is a surprisingly few for a network worth ~$70 million and illustrates how the REP expression is still a good immature asset and much from the valuation is risky plus based on venture model investment decision decisions made by simply retail purchasers. On that stage, there looks to be able to be very little connection or contribution from the particular PMR signal towards cost (Figure 6). This may be red flag for some long term investors and a hint of poor fundamentals, nevertheless, as often the network builds up momentum and exercise through additional bets being made in the event and a great deal more value being used on gambling markets, the number regarding energetic addresses on the Augur system is probable to increase. Conclusions Often the Augur Dapp underwent essential changes and progression within the second half of 2018. It has become the fully working decentralized betting marketplace in which newer markets are persistently becoming developed and satisfied, while onchain REP token movements carries on to build momentum. This REP expression has found brand new power but very little level and coverage. This might enhancements made on 2019. A reversal within sentiment surrounding the energy and performance associated with Dapps that is likely in order to coincide with the future bull market will end up being determining for REP. Augur Rep Wallet being a much discussed, idiosyncratic, n-sided marketplace, that offers an brilliant remedy in order to traditional centralized legacy conjecture markets, could very well re-emerge as market major Dapp plus build momentum and power for its attached expression.

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Augur Rep Wallet

In 2019 this cryptocurrency sector will proceed its evolution. While it has the early years have recently been centered by almost completely risky trading, as typically the market matures, a digital asset�s �fundamentals� will turn into increasingly important as value symptoms. BNC�s 'Alt-Coin Contenders' series introduces resources with basic characteristics that will set these individuals apart from his or her competitors and justify their very own addition in any investor�s �ones to watch� list. From an investment point of view, valuing corporations is commonly done using time honored formulas just like price to earnings and even value to book percentages, PEG computations and results promise. In the crypto space, nothing of these approaches utilize straight � and even option traders continue to keep wrestle together with how good for designate a value to digital assets in a nascent industry that is emotion motivated and even characterized by way of untamed movements To that conclusion, the purpose of that 'Alt-Coin Contenders' collection is to discover specific property that BNC experts need identified as possessing basic characteristics that from often the very least, warrant option traders as well as them in a good 'ones to watch' number. The selections are created structured on some sort of range involving requirements - things such as hashrate or an raise in on-chain transactions. Or maybe usage metrics for application tokens and the level and eagerness of an asset's 'community'. Or apparent liquidity � significant alternate listings in addition to fiat on-ramps. Exposure to prospective what is action is also critical, as are the men and women behind the scenes � inspiring market leaders with 'rock star' social media standing, or perhaps as an alternative, big-time monetary backers with deep wallets and even a good track file of achievements. No single tool will tick just about every field, and some will tick more than others, nonetheless what this course aims to do is maneuver viewers beyond simplistic FUD, FOMO and speculation � plus introduce the range of fundamental token attributes which will become recognized value signs as the field matures. Augur: Building the n-sided current market Augur (REP) can be a decentralized prediction customer vs consumer betting market place that is designed to help predict and converse the outcome involving a event based on a new the vast majority consensus principle. Consumers contributing in an Augur betting on marketplace find themselves vying versus peers on this network in order to complete on typically the right side regarding predictive prophetic an celebration results. This key defining factor on the Augur blockchain is decentralized event/oracle reporting. Oracles, end users on the network, report the effects of events documented around the network using Augur's completely automated, compensation aligning method, that ensures terrible actors are ensnared in addition to users can dispute illegal results. Users place table bets about questions like 'Will Jesse Trump be impeached by December 25th, 2018? ' (an active market) using either ETH or the platform's native token, REP. Industry creator originally sets odds 50/50, 80/20 etc) that numbers change as gamble roll inside. The 'will Donald Trump be impeached' guess, regarding illustration, currently sits in a 5% potential for developing with ETH fifty-one. four worth of wide open desire. The market creator chooses a 'designated reporter' who also reports on the objective results of an event. The particular REPETITION token shows 'reputation'. End users are rewarded ASSOCIATE once they report an event and that matches up to the agreed opinion of additional reporters. This really is a incentive based program, if an oracle misreports a event�an objective accurate or even false output�then the particular rest of the market makes note of this terrible reporter and punishes them. For betters, typically the Augur platform offers a good number of benefits over some sort of traditional central betting market service proposed by significant centralized entities such as Betfair or PaddyPower. There may be freedom for users to generate just about any market they want, therefore let other users figure out whether it is a good feasible betting possibility. Blockchain based smart contract pay out has the potential to substantially lessen the cost and time and energy to settle multiple bets all over many marketplaces, The permissionless character of Augur (funds and transactions secured plus confirmed based on the particular Ethereum worldwide account) allows users in a region be involved in previously unavailable protect marketplaces. My spouse and i. e. A Ethereum holder in Asian countries can make speculative bets on US stocks and shares quickly and cheaply, with minimized rubbing, inside a way not probable before areas like Augur existed. For oracles, Augur event coverage provides an opportunity to get involved in an n-sided marketplace. Therefore virtually any end user can provide their own homogenous service to any some other user and the particular environment can certainly still support more workers when demand for their services expands via the other side on the marketplace. Because of these characteristics, Augur has generally been referred to like the 'Uber of crypto'. The ecosystem furthermore runs more effectively with more oracles, meaning wider manifestation together with more views on a function result, increasing often the chances of fair wager effects. Transactions over typically the Augur Dapp are satisfied on the Ethereum blockchain through complex smart-contracts. Around Augur Rep Wallet , functionality plus overall performance of the Augur would depend on block moments and even Gas fees involving the Ethereum network, which often has multiple external factors affecting it. Augur inside 2018: Price struggles nevertheless growth across distinct metrics Like many other Ethereum based application tokens, REP's price performance has recently been disappointing despite significant advances in product development and maturation. It is presently down ~95% from it has the all time excessive obtained in mid-January, stock trading at ~$6 having formerly traded above a $265.21. A lot of this price wear and tear occurred in the second half of the 12 months. The Augur Dapp undergone a considerable main market transition with the ninth September. The particular token was able in order to keep some price levity based on speculative assessments through retail traders leading way up to, and around often the date ranges of mainnet swap. Augur's vastly improved method in addition to dispute resolution device declared in the guide up to the launch added to this acquiring force. The hype plus constructive speculation lasted until finally the sixth of September when Augur traded with some sort of peak of ~$42, post this kind of date Augur has been on the strong slide towards low single digits that has lasted over 5 months. Number 1: REP- 1 yr price chart, Source Bravenewcoin. com Post-mainnet launch typically the Augur platform is a new far more complex, fundamentally tough and consumer-ready application as opposed to the way it was in January, although price/value provides moved within the opposite path. This is feature involving immature and unstable crypto markets, dominated by way of retail store buyers who seem in order to trade on emotion, because opposed to letting primary variables play out. Seeing that such, price had been likely too high with the height of the bull function and even currently sits also low approaching new bottoms in the continuing tolerate market. Figure two: Development in the total balance of ETH in this Augur platform. Source: www.curiousgiraffe.io/augur/ Determine 3: Growth within the total number of market created and even completed with the Augur podium. Reference: www.curiousgiraffe.io/augur/ As with 12 17th, there was more than 12, 600 ETH based into Augur betting market with over 1600 markets created and 700 finished (figures 2&3). These essential metrics have proven regular upward momentum over typically the last 3 weeks, implying a growing eagerness for the platform. This essential has not recently been mirrored inside ASSOCIATE price, nevertheless. This specific considered, very handful of of these markets can be active or perhaps water, together with most action occuring in very specific functions adjacent the 12 months finish cost of electronic digital assets. Often the vision of Augur transforming into a totally peer-to-peer betting market place, where any user can certainly guess on any worldwide celebration, with automatic negotiation by way of objective reporting affirmed by means of consensus, has however to accomplish scale or well known significance in a approach that Dapps like Cryptokitties have achieved in the past. An instance study inside the efficacy on the Augur platform in 2018 The particular Augur decentralized opinion has been recently put under significant stress when trying to negotiate the market intended for 'Which party will manage this House after the 2018 Circumstance. S. mid-term polls -- Democrat or Conservative? Typically the Democratic party acquired typically the election, but the market expiration date has been Dec tenth. Because typically the date was not specified in the market plus the arrears expiration particular date for the betting industry was 12/10/18, numerous argue that Republican is the appropriate outcome as this Democrats usually do not officially acquire control of the Household right up until January 3rd 2019. There is over $1 thousand tied in this market, with large sizes in either side on the gamble. The question is plainly ambiguous and a 'code is law' argument may well favour this Republican aspect of the choice, even so, most presumed they were voting on the results regarding often the election or will not have voted to get any gathering other as compared to Republican. 90% on the gamble in the market backed a good Democratic win. However, it seems that the designated media reporter for the event (the oracle selected for reporting responsibilities simply by the market creator) will be taking perception that code is regulation, and Republicans ended up within the control of typically the House in the expiration go out with despite shedding the political election.

This means that almost all Democrat backers will get rid of their stakes, and typically the minority favouring Republican are going to win the particular bet with a technicality. The big event provides been a good useful case study on both the price and clunkiness of building a decentralized playing marketplace. In the watertight multi-billion betting houses that dominate the sports betting entire world, obscure markets like this particular would never have experienced this light of day. Even though they did possibly deal with much the same unsure outcome, 'centralized' support services protocols would handle almost any issues. What provides been commendable is typically the openness plus discussion about this issue as well as determination of developers and customers to prevent similar scenarios in the future. Onchain fundamental symptoms NVT indicate Figure 5 various: REP NVT signal together with price. NVT signal measured with information from Coinmetrics. io. Adjusted onchain deal volume used for NVT transmission Derived from the NVT rate, the NVT signal is actually a responsive blockchain appraisal metric developed by Willy Woo in addition to Dmitriy Kalichkin. Crypto trading markets are inclined to help pockets of risky paying for, definitely not backed up by underlying system overall performance plus activity. This NVT signal provides a few information directly into what period of that price cycle a new small may be in. Augur Wallet is indicative of the network that is definitely going through one involving these bubble periods, in addition to could move in the direction of a good position of becoming overbought/overvalued, due to market's speculative checks running low on steam. The climb in use of the Augur betting podium over this last 3 months offers coincided with a sharpened fall in typically the NVT signal (Figure 5). This kind of has lead to a good position wherever REP is likely close to an oversold inflection point, in addition to assessments of being temporary undervalued. The token, as soon as it detects a bottom level, may be able for you to develop its recent system pastime to push off of strongly. While described, this appears that Augur platform's recent strong fundamental worth has not yet recently been charged into REP, the moment it does it is likely that some positive quick term price performance will come with it. Alternative causes such as a good reversal in the much wider bearish feeling surrounding crypto and different speculative variables specific to REP, may deflate or perhaps inflate any kind of price motions driven with a bounce from the bottoming out NVT signal. It is definitely Important to remember that when much of the task in the Augur platform features ETH tokens, the more effective Augur podium with more wagers produced with ETH increases the electric of the ASSOCIATE token and will likely feedback into even more onchain movements of REPRESENTATIVE, as oracles observe extra opportunities in order to generate profits. PMR signal Figure 6: REP PMR signal and selling price. NVT signal calculated using files from Coinmetrics. io. Augur Rep Wallet ^2 used to reveal Metcalfe value. PMR values in natural log kind. Metcalfe's law is a good way of measuring connections in a good network, since established by Robert Metcalfe typically the be destroyed of Ethernet. It includes eventually been used to examine the true value regarding network-based financial products like Fb and Bitcoin, and by means of comparing it to help selling price, can provide some sort of useful tool to examine whether a new expression is over or even undervalued. That is in addition a more straightforward metric to implement versus onchain transaction amount, which are able to be complicated to assess accurately within USD phrases. Addresses are measured while the number of unique sending and receiving addresses starting transactions daily. In the past, lively address growth has normally been low to get INDIVIDUAL tokens. Active details around the network have in no way exceeded 3252 unique customers with a day and proportioned ~401 users a new moment on the time period from the particular 26th involving August for you to the 17th regarding December. This is a surprisingly few for a network worth ~$70 million and displays the REP expression is still a immature asset and much of its valuation is speculative in addition to based on venture fashion expense decisions made by retail customers. With this kind of stage, at this time there looks to help be very little relationship or contribution from the particular PMR signal towards selling price (Figure 6). This could be red flag for a few long term investors and even a hint of fragile fundamentals, on the other hand, as this network builds up energy and action through even more bets being made about the celebration and a lot more value being allocated to gambling markets, the number involving productive addresses on this Augur network is probably to increase. Conclusions Typically the Augur Dapp underwent considerable changes and progression inside the second half of 2018. It has become a good fully working decentralized betting marketplace in which latest markets are persistently staying produced and paid out, while onchain REP expression movement continues to build up momentum. The particular REP token has found new electricity but very little level and protection. This may well change in 2019. A reversal throughout sentiment surrounding this utility and performance regarding Dapps that is certainly likely in order to coincide with the subsequent bull market will end up being identifying for REP. Augur being a much outlined, idiosyncratic, n-sided marketplace, that offers an remarkable solution to help traditional centralized older prediction markets, can re-emerge because market leading Dapp and even build momentum and utility for its attached symbol.

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Today I began the design of a HUD. At first I was unsure whether or not I would include a HUD in my platformer but now I have decided that if I were to introduce enemies the health would prove quite useful. At this moment in time I still need to add damaging objects as there are currently none in my game plus coding the health bar to move corresponding to the damage received. I designed the bar using photoshop which I then exported as a png and inserted it into my canvas in unreal. I also downloaded a font off a website called dafont and I found the one I wanted to use which was also put into unreal to rest above the health bar.

I wanted to add the weapon to my character as an inspiration when I come to complete my sprite sheet. The design of the sword was more of a reminder to design the sword and it's animations later on.

Code to make the HUD function. This inserts whatever I have designed in the widget menu and puts it on the screen. This code allows the widget to be displayed by connecting the integer to the character meaning the widget cannot be deleted by an error if it is hooked to the character

Functioning collectible. The code allows the collectible blueprint that is inserted into the game to be "collected" by the character. Collected is in quotations as what the code actually does is destroy the collectible actors but only in game. The HUD can communicate with the player as it counts the actors destroyed which is the number of coins gimmick.

Today I began the designing of the sprites used on a sprite sheet. With some help I conquered my struggle of walking animations. The sprite used here very well may be the final design of my character for the platformer.

I fixed my error with the damage player object. Before I had put all of the code in the wrong blueprint but now I have resolved this by creating spikes that kill the player once it touches them a total of 10 times as they deal 10 damage and the player has 100 health.

To make moving platforms I used this set of code to allow the coordinates to be set for the new location of a platform. If this was looped, it would make the platform move to the new coordinates set and its original location.

Here is a screenshot of the platform I coded to move .

More code for the platforms. This basically creates a vector in which the platform is able to move to and from a location set. But with more advanced coding each platform will not have manual input of the desired location.

The beginning of my tilemap development. The tile map is set to 320x320 pixels which provides many grids (once turned on in photoshop) to design my tiles that will be used in the design of my 2D platformer.

Progress of the tilemap.

Further progression of tilemap.

Png version.

I also continued the development of my sword that the character in the platformer will be able to use.

At the moment it is only two frames which makes the sword move up and down, the swish is not yet animated. In the future I would also like to add little clouds beneath my character's feet whenever it moves and jumps. I later on lost the file of the sword but I found a way to rotate the sword without having to redraw it making the current version better than the screenshot above.

Finished tilemap

Beginning of the insertion of my tiles into unreal. I created a tile set by right clicking on a blank space, going to paper2D and selecting tile set. Here I gave each tile a collision box so the character is able to interact with every tile.

The plotting of tiles onto the tilemap in game. To do this I right clicked on a blank space in my content browser, went on paper2D and selected tile map. To plot the tiles all you needed to do was select the tile and click

Animated sprite in game (walking animation screenshot)

Code that makes sprite walk when holding movement button and stand still when stationary. The boolean allowed the flipbook to pause when movement input=flase so there was no animation palying when idle. (until idle animation is done)

Early development of tilemap in game.

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How To Get People To Like SEO 2019

Businesses ought to use 2018 in order in order to the bad habit of looking at aspects of an SEO advertising strategy being a one-time exercise. Search engines regard metadata plus meta keywords as less essential than they used to, thanks a lot to many years of dark hat misuse, however the name of your page and the relevancy towards the content may always be a highly essential factor in SEO. SEO is important because this helps you get found simply by improving your ranking online lookup results. Inorganic SEO will be good for populating links with regard to your website, even on some other websites which signed up regarding online ads to be demonstrated on their web pages. Of course, finding the period for you to write your own SEO articles daily can become difficult in light of the particular fact that you still have got a company to run. Social media offers its very own perks aside from SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION value. 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The biggest way that individuals misuse SEO is assuming that will it's a game or that will it's about outsmarting or deceiving the search engines. Both are crucial to the particular success of an SEO marketing campaign, but they're on completely different edges of the fence when this comes to improving your search motor rankings. A lot more than 50% of mobile phone customers started using voice search correct from 2015, and so all of us can expect that in 2019 and after that not much less than 50% of searches will certainly be in the form associated with voice search. Within the past, getting a great SEO was only about making use of keywords. Remember that SEO is usually about targeting real people, not really only search engines. 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By 2019, the method we search might not modify completely, but these new technology will definitely change the way we all build links, engage users, plus generate leads through content marketing and advertising. Site Champion® increases site visitors by helping shoppers find your own products in search engines via increased keyword rankings using SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION automation. While link quantity is nevertheless important, content creators and SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION professionals are realizing that hyperlink quality is now more essential than link quantity, and since such, creating shareable content will be the initial step to earning valuable hyperlinks and improving your off-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Based on SEO software program company Moz's bi-yearly survey upon search engine ranking factors, the particular titles on your page are usually one of the nine nearly all important considerations a search motor makes. 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SEO service suppliers are specialized in increasing the particular traffic to your site simply by increasing your position in the particular search engine ranking positions. Entice international people to your internet sites with these SEO tips. The top challenges within organic SEO are link constructing (easy-to-get links no more possess much value) and keyword study (the low-hanging fruit is lengthy gone). For illustration, the word ‘SEO tips' is furthermore included inside the less aggressive phrase ‘SEO tips 2019', which usually is searched for too. "SEO" is a term that will be used to describe the procedure by which visitors a specific site is increasingly generated simply by search engines through search results. These white-hat cellular SEO tips will help a person to avoid internet search motor penalties and maintain better on the web visibility. SEO or lookup engine optimization techniques will deal with these requirements of a web site. AI and tone of voice search have already begun in order to impact SEO, and as these types of technologies continue to develop, we all can expect to see a lot more changes in the way SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is completed. In the second chapter of our SEO guidebook, you will learn how lookup engines work, how people utilize them and what type of research queries they submit. You need in order to provide regular posts either daily or at least several periods a week in order in order to gain a following and offer enough unique SEO content in order to keep your search engine rankings high, attract new viewers plus convince people that you are usually the expert in your industry. Voice research will change the way we interact along with search engines and it will certainly make SEO even more aggressive and vital to online achievement. Our SEO outreach team connect your brand and curated content with key on-line influencers to get people speaking about you & sharing your own message. Yet, with the research engines like google continually modifying their rules SEO may appear confusing and overwhelming. Understanding what these words really suggest, and how SEO analysts make use of them to boost your cyberspace search engine results, may become a whole other story. Dave Gregory, Content Marketing Supervisor from the UK based functionality marketing agency, SiteVisibility, predicts that will 2019, and not 2018, is usually going to be the true year of voice. If we consider Google's Guide then there are almost 200+ factors that lead a internet site in ranking, which we possess researched and clustered in twenty one On Page SEO Factors, that will needs your attention in 2019. SEO Wise Links can automatically link important terms in your posts plus comments with corresponding posts, webpages, categories and tags on your own blog. 41. An effective cultural media strategy needs a strong SEO plan. Google does make a few of this data obtainable in their particular free Webmaster Tools interface (if you haven't set up a merchant account, this is a very important SEO tool both for unearthing search query data and with regard to diagnosing various technical SEO issues). AI and Tone of voice Search Impact SEO, Lets notice how voice search analytics Impact's SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and can impact in the particular coming time. A great many businesses make a decision to hire external help for you to get the full benefits regarding SEO, so a large element of our audience is studying how to convince their customers that search is an excellent investment (and then prove it! ). Nevertheless, SEOs tend in order to prefer links higher on the page. 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White hat SEO includes almost all the SEO practices we've spoken about so far which possess a long term approach in order to site optimization and focus upon the user experience and exactly what people need. Cost effectiveness - SEO will be one of the most most affordable marketing strategies because it focuses on users who are actively searching for your products and solutions online. The reality is that you can obtain top Search engine ranking jobs spending a little bit associated with money and working on the particular project yourself or paying the professional Seo services thousands associated with dollars to get your Internet site on the first page. Although black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION methods may boost a cyberspace search engine page rank within the short term, these strategies could also get the web site banned from the search motors altogether. According in order to research and advisory firm Forrester, programmatic marketing is expected in order to account for 50% of most advertising by 2019. forty five. Use Google Analytics to calculate social SEO factors like the particular number of owned and beneficial results. The common SEO issue for e-commerce sites is that product evaluation functionality tends to rely upon AJAX, iframes, or subdomains, which usually make it very hard, or even even impossible, for search motors to complement product reviews with item pages. Local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is an effective way in order to market your business online. Intended for more on Squarespace's SEO-friendly features plus how to use them, go to Increasing your site's visibility in order to search engines. For Ecommerce websites, SEO agencies can see which usually paths users take in purchase to complete a sale, just about all the way down to which usually keyword they used to research for you prior to buying. Continue to increase your SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION to construct business and drive traffic plus rank for more terms. SEO refers in order to the process of gaining a good impressive rank in search motor listings. Organic SEO is usually also less costly long-term while you establish search credibility, as longer as you maintain it along with the consistent creation of high quality content and social media utilization. Within the 6th section of our SEO for rookies guide, we will discuss hyperlink building - one of the particular most important aspects of research engine optimization. Search engine optimization can furthermore be known as SEO plus it is defined as the technique or procedure for customizing the website within an efficient and efficient way in purchase to make a good existence on major search engines.

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Playtesting and Pitching Insights

The prototype of the platformer “Into the Abyss” was playtested by 3 volunteers. This was decided so that there was a variety of different views that would help with the development for the game. I observed the playtesters and asked them questions after the session to see how i could further improve my game and what ideas I should implement into the game to improve my current and future prototypes.

Questions

what do you like about the game?

what do you dislike about the game?

what should be added in the game?

what should be removed from the game?

Responses

Playtester 1:

I like the simplicity of the game, very beginner friendly with an easy objective that is straight forward and easy to follow 

The game is basic and the level is short 

Longer levels and checkpoints should be added 

The player should have more than 1 life and a lives system should be added 

Playtester 2:

I like collecting the coins 

Game was too simple 

More enemies and different types of enemies should be added 

less bushes in the level because the enemies can hide behind them and are hard to see 

Playtester 3:

I like killing the enemies 

Not alot of variety 

Different ways to attack and moving platforms should be added to make the game more exciting and difficult 

Platforms that block the player from walking through them. The platforms should act as platforms and not as walls so that it is easier to move around

Review

The three playtesters seemed to enjoy playing the prototype which is a good sign that the game accomplishes its job in being fun to play. The information that I have gained from these playtesters have been very beneficial and will be essential in improving future prototypes in the future. The level design was short, very basic and static. This will need to be further improved to make the level design more interesting and more engaging so that the player experience is further improved on, the improvements that should be added in the 2nd prototype is listed below.

Improvements 

inclusion of a life system (3 lives before game over)

add larger variety of enemies (more on the ground and in the air)

Make level more complex and less static (moving platforms)

implement different ways the character can move (Grapplehook, rope swing) 

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Is Forex Trading same as Bitcoin

Today, We'll be talking about something which may intrigue a lot of you future traders and investors. Though some may argue that there are many similarities between cryptocurrency trading with forex trading is like comparing apples and melon. but you'll find for yourself that is not entirely true.

Forex involves trading currencies as the currency market is bigger and well-established, while the crypto marketplace is a new participant in the spectacle. Forex entails middlemen, agents, and Several different associations that typically collect fees at virtually every step of the trading procedure. But, in crypto trading, there is no middleman and that is most likely the biggest draw for this. Another Significant gap we must mention between both would be the liquidity available in foreign exchange and also the absence of it from crypto, As soon as you drift away in the significant cryptocurrency coins.

If You're wondering which Kind of Trading, to begin with, this guide can help you. Let us begin.

Whether You Decide to exchange Forex or Crypto, you must understand that every sort of trading conveys its particular risk and benefits and negative and positive sides.

The feeling that they're digital trading forms of money. As previously mentioned, all you will need is access to the net and a calculating device to begin trading.

Construction of each market location differs. There are numerous similarities, but equating them is, as we mentioned, such as comparing two different fruits together.

Many forex dealers have turned into the cryptocurrency markets because of the recent increase in popularity. In the conclusion of the afternoon, the choice of whether to exchange forex or cryptocurrency is dependent upon your objectives, assets, and risk tolerance. Also, we advise you to devote some time to perform research and analysis on both markets before choosing which to trade.

What is Bitcoin

Bitcoin is only electronic money without a physical form at all; it is strictly peer-to-peer, though its title may suggest otherwise. Consequently, there is no middleman involved, in the kind of banks, aside from the purchaser and the vendor. Working behind the scenes to earn bitcoin operational is your so-called blockchain tech. Every trade is set on a people ledger, in the shape of interlinked data cubes, where everybody with access can see the background of particular purchases. Additionally, data can't be erased without eliminating all the preceding blocks from the series, effectively preventing manipulation in the kind of forgeries.

Conducted 24/7, whereas overseas is restricted to just five days per week and closes throughout the weekend. This permits dealers to buy and market bitcoin in their leisure.

Another interesting thing that makes Bitcoin an international trading product is its decentralization. Bitcoin is not tied to any particular nation or lender, thus rendering it completely autonomous. The cost is, therefore, regulated solely by the men and women in the conventional kind of demand and supply. This, nevertheless, has its drawbacks. Significantly, bitcoin is overly volatile for a currency due to its fast-changing prices, changing during one day with a couple of hundred bucks occasionally, whereas forex is much more stable seeing as it changes only by several cents in the least.

Also, be utilized to catch some easy cash if you get lucky enough to purchase it if the rates are low and sell when they are very large. By way of instance, five decades back, 1 bitcoin was worth roughly a hundred dollars, now it is worth more about fifteen million, but then again, who is ready to take a seat a single currency for such a long time?

What is Forex Trading

Forex trading isn't as complicated. In Reality, if you went into a foreign nation, by way of instance, in the United States to Germany, you likely had to take part in certain forex trading yourself.

Its fundamental principles operate the Identical way As bitcoin trading, just now you are comparing two currencies rather than this one. By calling where the money's value is going, you may either purchase it or sell it at a subsequent date to create profit. These forecasts are based on geopolitical equilibrium, inflation, preceding tendencies, and so forth.

Fortunately, are readily accessible social dealer platforms, which lets you monitor currency values in real-time, in addition to executing wise auto-trades along with different traders.

Along with providing excellent Help to newer faces on the current market, they create your brokering life easier, yet more rewarding at precisely the same moment.

Forex Currency trading is a whole lot easier to enter than bitcoin trading.

The Guideline is to begin small, Say investing about $30 daily until you learn the basics of the transaction and begin earning a profit. This is not a distinct chance with bitcoin because it needs much more investment in the part simply to get one bitcoin.

Bitcoins for a long time before you're able to sell them and even then, it is a high-risk high-reward investment, whereas using forex, you can run commerce daily, based on the firmness of this marketplace.

Volatility is not a problem with forex as It's with bitcoin. But, physical monies are published, occasionally in excess, resulting in inflation. This subsequently devalues the monies to a level, whereas bitcoin includes a limit of merely twenty-one million coins present at a single time in the entire world. Meaning, its cost will most probably be going upward, exponentially, later on.

How To choose between Forex and Bitcoin Trading

Furthermore, forex trading incorporates a controlled environment to give extra safety to dealers. The market contains large players and institutional investors that give a greater amount of money to trading.

At precisely the same time, investors may benefit greatly from cryptocurrency trading since the marketplace isn't yet entirely mature. Bitcoin, altcoins, and electronic tokens have a massive possibility to scale. Making investments in the main stage may allow a dealer to procure massive gains in forthcoming decades. Furthermore, cryptocurrencies are prone to a higher level of volatility. A savvy dealer can leverage the variable of volatility to acquire substantial returns.

While forex currency trading markets are mainly held by institutional investors, cryptocurrency investments incorporate retail dealers too, in part as a result of comparatively-less funds crypto trading demands compared to forex. The expenses of top trading charges are also removed when coping with crypto markets.

The two crypto and foreign exchange markets have advantages and risks. It depends upon A single trader to get their favorite trading environment, and In these two landscapes, a dealer needs to have a particular level of knowledge and consciousness. However, given the appropriate study, both systems Present the chance of a massive return on investment.

In Conclusion, forex Is Now the safer Option because it has been a proven process of trading long before bitcoin started becoming popular in the market. Additionally, bitcoin's volatility is much similar to a double-edged Sword -- there is no saying if the prices will fall or rise Considerably in a short time-frame. So it's better to do proper research before investing in either of them by considering their pros and cons.

[thechcoman]

WIBP: Super Mario Odyssey

Before I begin today, sorry this took so long to come out. Hopefully, the next post won’t take as long. Furthermore, while I would like to talk about Nier Automata so more, I haven’t play much of it lately due to a lack of time. So when I get a chance to play more of it, I will write about it.

My love of platformers has been well-documented when I first wrote about A Hat in Time. I’ve always loved them; how they reward careful movement and jumps; how they have countless numbers of collectibles that reward exploration and finer platforming; and I love discovering all the cool maneuvers you can do and using them to try and look cool and complete the level faster. They are, usually, completely skill-based experiences that if designed correctly, are incredibly rewarding. However, another great thing about most of these platformers is how you don't have to be incredible at them to beat them, but being incredible at them is fun and rewarding.

Such is the case with the game I’ve been helplessly addicted to for the last week: Super Mario Odyssey. Much like the platformers of the Nintendo 64 Era and modern-day games such as A Hat in Time and Yooka-Laylee, Super Mario Odyssey is a huge collect-a-thon, however it might be the most densely-packed collect-a-thon platformer that Nintendo has made. One of the appeals of the game for me is not only the sheer amount of content and collectibles, but also, much like A Hat In Time, the mechanics for controlling and moving Mario is incredibly fun. And if you’ve read my post on A Hat In Time or my post about Final Fantasy XV, then you know how much I love fun and fluid movement options and techniques.

The main goal of the game is to obtain Power Moons, similar to collecting Stars in Super Mario 64, or Time Pieces in A Hat In Time. However, unlike Stars or Time Pieces, Power Moons are quite literally EVERYWHERE. The maximum number of unique moons you can get in the game is a whopping 880 moons. Keep in mind that A Hat in Time had 40 Time Pieces, and Super Mario 64 had 120 stars. It’s ridiculous how many moons there are. It gets to the point where you’re almost quite literally tripping over moons every minute of playtime. Nearly every action you do gets you a moon.

One unfortunate consequence of having so many moons in the game is that a good chunk of them end up being not so interesting to obtain. Unlike A Hat In Time or various other collect-a-thons that are similar to it, many of the moons have uninteresting or uninspiring objectives or missions behind obtaining them. A lot of 6the moons are just sitting out there, waiting to be collected, or they’re pretty easy to find.

The benefit of doing this however is that because of the high number of moons, it ensures that the game isn’t too difficult to blaze through, which is good for the audience who aren’t so skilled at the game. Furthermore, it feels good to be collecting a new moon every couple of minutes, if only because it feels as though you’re constantly making progress and constantly building up to something. Furthermore, it makes the game rewarding for my particular way of playing games; the one that rewards thorough examination, exploration and thinking.

Every time in this game when you think “I bet there’s a moon there,” there usually is. And if not that, then usually a gigantic amount of coins. More often than not, this is usually indicative of you reaching an area that you thought you weren’t supposed to be able to get to or an area that’s difficult to reach that the developers want to reward you for reaching.

However, let me talk about the thing that made me really enjoy Super Mario Odyssey: the mobility options. Having fun, fluid and intuitive mobility and movement options is critical to most platformers (alongside good level design). In this particular Mario game however, movement is far more fun than it ever has been in previous Mario games. It requires skill to do, but it’s incredibly rewarding if you get it right. By mastering the game’s movement options, it becomes easy to sequence break and skip over portions of each level. But what are your movement options specifically?

Well, a good majority of your movement options comes from the main new mechanic in the game – the ability to throw your hat. Once you toss your hat out, it can damage enemies (and let you take control of some). If you toss out your hat in midair however, it stops all your momentum for moment. Furthermore, if you hold down the button that throws the cap, it will stay out and you then bounce off of it. This can be combined with the ability to dive mid-air by beginning a ground-pound, and pressing the dive button. So first you can throw you hat, dive, land on the hat to launch yourself higher into the air…and then you can do the whole process a second time, though you don’t get a second bounce. Then, after the second dive, you can transition that into a roll, which can also transition into a long jump, where you can then repeat the whole process.

This ability to continually move forward not only lets you get from point to point faster, but also allows the player to stay engaged and constantly make progress. And the fact that it requires some skill to perform also makes it further rewarding when you pull it off.

The maneuver can get even more complicated, allowing you scale walls you normally wouldn’t be able to. You first ground pound, then immediately jump in order to get extra height; then throw the hat and dive and bounce off it; then wall jump; then throw your hat towards the wall, dive towards it, and when you dive, you can potentially make it over the wall. This can lead to some cool moments in which you reach places that you initially believe the developers didn’t intend for you to reach…until you find the giant stack of coins that implicate otherwise. This is insane to me. While the reward is small, it’s still an acknowledgement from the developers that you were not only able to get there, but also that they knew it was possible to get there and planned for it in advance.

I love it when developers acknowledge and reward the mindset of players who explore every possible outcome or think of everything. It shows the forethought of the developers as they know how people are going to want to play their game. It shows good game design, it shows good level design, and it’s fun for a player to be acknowledged when they do something impressive, cool or difficult.

I mentioned earlier about how throwing your hat at enemies can let you take control of some of them. This mechanic is named “capture” which is a terrible pun. While you can’t take control of EVERY enemy in the game, you can take control of a good number of them. A lot of them fundamentally change the way you play the game and interact with your environment, which helps to change things up and introduce variety into the game.

Some of the enemies you control are kinda boring and uninteresting, such as possessing Fire Bros. or Hammer Bros. which lets you throw fire and hammers respectively…and all it does is introduce a way to break very specific blocks and a new way to attack. Plus, they are difficult to control, which makes playing as them not very fun at all.

But then we have enemies like the…well I’m not sure what it’s called, but it’s some kind of bird enemy you can encounter late in the game that can peck into walls and flick itself upwards, sideways, or downwards a wall. This changes how you interact with the world in a new and interesting way, allowing you to open up new paths and find new collectibles.

One thing I’ve neglected to mention so far that the game does amazingly is its presentation. So many games that come out these days, despite the amount of color that are in them, don’t have colors that pop or stand out. Furthermore, most games’ presentation is very…basic. Super Mario Odyssey, again like A Hat In Time, has very creative and interesting worlds that are well-thought out and beautiful, with plenty of colors that pop and interesting and creative levels. Many of the traditional Mario levels we see usually have some sort of interesting twist on them that makes them feel different than previous Mario games. The lava/volcano stage is actually a stage based around food, with the lava being hot soup. The desert stage is themed after Mexico and is filled with Mexican culture. These kinds of changes are done in order to give the impression of traveling the world and going on a grand adventure…and I’d say it works pretty well.

The presentation gets even better when it comes to the soundtrack. The game has several memorable tracks, such as the music for the Cascade Kingdom, which ends up being one of the main themes of the game. The other main theme of the game is the song “Jump Up, Super Star!” which is a jazz-inspired song sung by one of the in-game characters. It’s a song that, the first time I heard it in the trailer of the game, it simply cannot leave my head. It’s such a great song and if you have any love for Mario or Jazz music, you should give it a listen because the song is just that good. I just wished it was used a bit more often in the game proper, but it's not a big deal.

Overall, I really enjoyed my time with Super Mario Odyssey. I just wish that there were more games similar to it and A Hat In Time, since the 3D collect-a-thon platformer seems to be such a rare genre these days, yet I think that there’s still definitely a market for it. People like to explore and have freedom in there games, and these collect-a-thon 3D platformers are great for those people who like to be rewarded for exploring and going out of their way to find rewards.

[colorfulskeletonkidgoop]

World's first Defi bank by Yield Defi bank

In financial terms, Yield is used to describe a certain amount earned on a security, over a particular period of time. … Yield is a measure of cash flow that an investor is getting on the money invested in a security. Generally, Yield is calculated by dividing the dividends or interest received on a set period of time by either the amount originally invested or by its current price: For a bond investor, the calculation is similar.

Yield Bank Finance is basically The Worlds 1st DeFi Bank Yield Bank seeks mass adoption, coupled with extreme longevity to become the largest Decentralized Finance yield aggregator in the space. To give insight to our future offered products, we plan to offer an immense user experience through a sophisticatedly simple to understand UI. As earlier mentioned Yield Bank Finance one company responsible for the growth of top crypto firms today. a digital or virtual currency that is secured by cryptography, which makes it nearly impossible to counterfeit or double-spend. Many cryptocurrencyes are decentralized networks based on blockchain technology — a distributed ledger enforced by a disparate network of computers.

Yield Bank Finance is the most understimated cryptocurrency to invest in in 2020. In the next few months, it is expected to directly benefit from the accelerated demand growth and deaccelerated supply growth being observed throughout the global cryptocurrency market. Yield Bank Finance is an decentralized cryptocurrency that uses peer-to-peer connection, which enables all functions such as currency issuance, transaction processing and verification to be carried out collectively by the network. These characteristics make Yield Bank Finance fundamentally different from a other fiat currencyes, which is backed by the full faith and credit of its government. Fiat currency issuance is a highly centralized activity supervised by a nation’s central bank. While the bank regulates the amount of currency issued in accordance with its monetary policy objectives, there is theoretically no upper limit to the amount of such currency issuance. In addition, local currency deposits are generally insured against bank failures by a government body. Yield Bank Finance, on the other hand, has no such support mechanisms. The value of a Yield Bank Finance is wholly dependent on what investors are willing to pay for it at a point in time. As well, if a Yield Bank Finance’s exchange folds up, clients with Yield Bank Finance balances have no recourse to get them back.

Benefits to yB token holders...

Our native Token yB, when staked, will produce monetary rewards of our associated Token yCASH on open markets backed by our liquidity pools chosen from our data driven research. Token yCASH, also a deflationary token will act as our staking rewards token from Token yB. Token yB represents the key to our entire ecosystem as without it, you will not be a participant in our platform.

Users holding our platform token, yB, will be issued an internal account number. This account number will provide the user access to the Yield Bank platform. Inside the user’s interface the user will have everything they need under one roof. Users will have the ability to stake, trade LPs, lock-up in our vaults, save for retirement in our 401K accounts, swap coins with an internal AMM, generate, view, and print detailed statements of all the user’s transactions of their account.

We are launching a marketing campaign to build our user base and community in a slow, procedural and organic manner. We have a set of articles in the pipeline that will further reveal the full scope of our project leading up to the ILL Episode as well as a complete whitepaper. Follow us on any of our social media accounts to stay updated. ILL Episode date will be announced in the coming weeks.

Liquidity pools

Centralized exchanges rely on market makers to provide sufficient liquidity — that much we have established. So how do AMMs execute trades? In other words, what or who “makes” the market for an AMM-based decentralized exchange? The same way centralized exchanges rely on market makers for liquidity, AMMs rely on liquidity pools for liquidity.

For ease of understanding, you could visualize a liquidity pool as an actual swimming pool that people as a collective pour their money into instead of water. People who pour their money into this pool are called liquidity providers.

But what incentive do they have to pour their money into this pool? For each trade that happens using that pool as liquidity to execute the trade, a percentage-based fee is charged to the person interacting with the AMM smart contract. This fee is then distributed to all liquidity providers proportionally based on how much liquidity they are overall providing compared to the size of the rest of the pool.

A practical, simplified example: If the liquidity pool is worth 92 USD, and you go and put 8 USD in, the total value of the pool is now 100 USD and you own 8% of that pool’s liquidity. As a result you would get awarded 8% of fees that this pool makes — if the pool over a certain period of time made 5 USD in fees, you would get 8% of that 5 USD as rewards — this is called liquidity mining. This is of course all very simplified as different AMMs and protocols might offer a different fee / reward structure as well as different terms of use. In the case of Uniswap, 0.3% of all trade volume is charged as a fee and then is distributed proportionally to all liquidity providers. By default, these fees are put back into the liquidity pool, but can be collected at any time.

YieldBank Ecosystem

Yield Bank’s ecosystem will have a wide variety of highly liquid pools where our yCASH pools will be supporting our yB pools, overall stabilizing our ecosystem with Yield Bank’s liquidity pools seamlessly looped into each other, providing stable yields to our users for many years to come.

When you put your money into a liquidity pool thus becoming a liquidity provider, you are in return given LP tokens. You could think of this LP token as a sort of IOU coupon that you can at any time exchange back for the money you put into the liquidity pool. In essence, the amount of LP tokens you were given represents the value of the money you put into the pool.

Trading LP tokens

This is where Yield Bank comes in. We will create a market for LP tokens on our platform. A much more varied, accessible and liquid market for LP tokens than ever available before in DeFi backed by our liquidity pools, the sheer size of our platform and its volume. By locking the liquidity in our pools forever, we are creating a positive feedback loop of ever-increasing liquidity — liquidity can only increase with time and never decrease.

This will, in conjunction with the elaborate deflationary mechanics both of our tokens have, create a positive feedback loop of always increasing the liquidity in our pools, therefore rising prices of our tokens, therefore increased interest in our platform which in turn results in new users buying our tokens to enter our ecosystem (and pushing the price upwards) and putting that money into our pools once again increasing liquidity — thus the said positive feedback loop is achieved. Our ecosystem is bound to establish itself within the top ranks of DeFi and this is just one of many reasons why it will do so.

Raising initial collateral

The current plan is to have a separate Liquidity Episode specifically for collateral providers to launch our initial collateral pool. Users will be incentivized to participate in each of our Liquidity Episodes through various bonuses we will offer — these will be specified in advance before the Liquidity Episode happens. This serves both as an incentive and a reward to our early supporters as additional users coming in after the initial Liquidity or Collateral Episode will be not eligible to claim any of these bonuses when providing liquidity or collateral.

YieldBank Future

This is one of the many emerging names that confidently claims to be more efficient and many times less expensive. Especially with the feature that narrows the gap between project owner and investor, provides instant liquidity option to prospective projects while also providing investor access to swap funds The exclusivity has made the project a separate direction from the rest of the Defi platform.

Should we invest in ybank?

Hopefully, with the information you have given above, you will have an overview of the ybank finance project as well as the yB token. Based on the above information, you can evaluate and decide on your own investment opportunities for ybank. I will continue to monitor and update you with information about the ybank finance project as well as the yB token when it officially launches.

Disclaimer: This article is intended to provide information only about the ybank finance and yB token project and is not considered investment advice. Cryptocurrency investment is a risky investment, you only participate with the money you can lose.

Summary

yBank finance is supported by many financial and non-financial institutions because its development and technology goals are quite impressive. Currently, yBank has not been listed on any exchange, in the near future it is inevitable that yBank has more leaps.

For more information please visit links below:

Website: yieldbank.finance

Medium: medium.com/@YieldBank

Twitter: twitter.com/YieldBank

Telegram Room: t.me/YieldBank

Telegram Announcement Channel: t.me/YieldBankAnnouncements

Discord: discord.gg/4DrKFzJ

Email: social@yieldbank.finance

Liquidity Episode date: TBA

Author: Gvsahil

Proof of Authentication: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1885448

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Super Mario Sunshine (Gamecube)

I didn’t realize, until the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, just how neglected Super Mario Sunshine was.  I remember when it came out in 2002, it didn’t exactly make a “splash” (pun wildly intended).  One of my most vivid memories is watching wrestling on TV at the student university center at my college (because our dorm rooms didn’t get the channel), and when the Mario Sunshine commercial came on, one of the other spectators going, “God, that looks so gay...”. 

It was a different time, kids. 

...but he wasn’t necessarily wrong.  I don’t think the commercial did any favors towards properly marketing the game.  First of all, it made it seem as if the entire game is just Mario cleaning sludge, which to be fair, seems lame.  However, that is only a very small fraction of the game, and even then, it’s rarely if ever the objective of the level (except maybe once).  Secondly, this was in a time when games like Halo and Grand Theft Auto were in their PRIME and there was a certain, snooty hostility gamers had towards Nintendo for being too juvenile for their developing tastes.  I mean, that attitude still exists today, practically any time Nintendo releases a new console, but still it was much more rabid and mean back in 2002.  Back then, Nintendo had made a crucial misfire sticking to cartridge based games with the N64, so when the Gamecube came out, while PS2 and XBox held a solid grip on the market, they seemed tragically late to the dance.  They seemed like “The Dud” card in that dating game from The Simpsons:

As it turned out, the Gamecube was a damn good console with an interesting library of games still worth checking out today - including Super Mario Sunshine, which I would argue is in many ways superior to Super Mario 64.  Obviously it’s graphically superior, but it also has much tighter controls, and an infinitely better camera.  All that is technical stuff that kind of goes without saying though.  Gameplay wise, well...

...I may have to give that up to Mario 64, but not by a landslide.  Mario 64 has way better level variety and a pretty solid, simple gameplay loop that makes it easier to replay.  The levels on Mario Sunshine, on the other hand, can be pretty homogeneous.  You like tropical themed stages?  Well, Sunshine’s got you covered and then some!  As far as replayability is concerned, though, Sunshine’s difficulty is such that replaying it isn’t as fun or fulfilling as Mario 64.  It’s just sorta... annoying. 

The game begins with Mario and company arriving on the beautiful Isle Delfino for a vacation, but upon arrival Mario is immediately arrested for smuggling cocaine.  No, just kidding, he’s arrested because a shadowy doppleganger has been vandalizing the island with mysterious, toxic sludge.  As part of Mario’s sentence, he is given a water shooting device called FLUDD and tasks with not only cleaning up the mess but finding the mystical Shine Sprites, which have been stolen by Shadow Mario, consequently causing the sun to dim.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s fun to be had with this game, and if you play it straight through without collecting all 120 Shines, then it might be even more fun.  However, completionists will have their hands full with this game, tackling some of the more difficult challenges and completing some of the more irritating fetch quests, such as finding all the blue coins in each level (Noki Bay being the absolute WORST).  Then there’s finding the “Secret Shines”, which aren’t very intuitive unless you have a walkthrough handy.  As of right now I’m at 108 Shines in my attempt to complete the game, putting off the dreaded bonus level where you first have to LABORIOUSLY take Yoshi on a series of ferry boats to a remote island off the coast of Delfino (the hub world of this game), being careful not to fall into the water or Yoshi disintegrates.  Once reaching the island, you have to use Yoshi’s ability to puke juice (that’s a thing) to melt the barrier on a green pipe that leads to the actual bonus level.  If you get a game over in the process of trying to beat the bonus level (and you will), look forward to doing that entire process AGAIN before you get another shot.  Oh, and the bonus level involves using FLUDD to carefully direct a leaf over rapids, which kill you immediately should you fall in (and you will), so you can collect red coins to make a Shine sprite appear at the end.  It’s extremely difficult to navigate the leaf and an absolute chore to complete (hell, it’s a chore just to access the goddamn level). 

Sorry, had to vent.

Anyway, the FLUDD gets a lot of shit, but I actually rather enjoyed it.  The hover ability makes it so much easier to jump with better precision platform-to-platform.  I mean, yeah, it’s basically a Super Soaker in backpack form, and an excuse for Nintendo to demo the Gamecube’s graphical power (look at all that pretty water - oohhhhh), but its absence is felt during the bonus levels where you have to platform without it. 

While Super Mario Sunshine is at times ridiculously hard or tedious to the point of being a micro aggression, it’s still a solid 3D Mario game and deserving of the second chance (or, for many, FIRST chance) that it’s getting due to being in Super Mario 3D All-Stars. 

[robertdrozdz-games-t1]

Thursday Home Study Task

Super Mario Odyssey Game Review

Super Mario Odyssey is a 3d platformer released for Nintendo Switch that is reminiscent of old 3d mario games like super mario 64 or sunshine. The game follows Mario and a newly acquired ally, Cappy, a hat that allows Mario to control enemies and allows him to perform more daring jumps. The game features mostly open-ended 3d levels to explore like New Donk City and Sand Kingdom but some of the 3d levels are quite smaller and linear like Cascade Kingdom and Moon Kingdom. Classic 2d levels also return in Super Mario Odyssey with the flat zone sections that add a change of pace to the 3d platforming and heavily resemble the original super mario bros. The biggest gameplay mechanic of the game is Cappy. Cappy can be used to attack enemies, be used as a temporary platform and most importantly control enemies/objects and possess them. This allows mario to use unique abilities that in most mario games would be a power up. This allows for very unique and creative gameplay mechanics and level design. A change from other mario games is that mario has infinite lives. So dying will only cause the player to lose coins. Coins are also much more useful in this game with shops found in every level that allow the player to buy stuff like health or costumes from mario maker outfit to his super mario 64 outfit. This game has an abundant amount of collectables, personally i say a bit too much. Most of the power moons are really fun and rewarding to find but the rest are just a chore and make you lose your sanity to trying to find them. Lastly the bosses, the bosses in this game can range from basic to really good like the final bowser boss fight that leads to a bombastic escape sequence that utilizes all the gameplay mechanics that the player has mastered by then. Overall this game is amazing and modernizes the classic Super Mario 3d Formula.

UI - UX

What is UI and UX? And why is it Important?

UI is user interface and UX is user experience. User interface is how the player will interact and receive information from the game. User experience is how the user is going to perceive the game in front of them, like is the information clear, its it easy to use and understand etc. UI and UX are important because thats how the user will be interacting with the game and having a clean and easy to understand screen that holds all the necessary information for the player so the player isn’t confused is needed for a game to function.

What is a Win and Lose Screen?

A Win/Lose Screen in video games is how the player knows if they beat the level or that they lose the level by running out of lives or something. Winning a level also tells the game to start the next level up or reward the player.

 What is your opinion on the post from medium.com? What is the best user interface you have used and why?

I mostly agree with the list but i would change some of the games in the post for example i don’t believe assassins creed 2 should be on the list. the ui is interesting and unique but its just a lot of sub menus on sub menus which is confusing and not fun to navigate around. But other then that I mostly agree with the listing with games like destiny and persona having really good and clean UIs. Personally the best user interface is destiny/Destiny 2’s because of how clean and simple it is yet it tells you so much information without having clunky text boxes. All the information is presented really well which allows for simple and quick navigation.

Ideas for a death screen? Plan for Win and Lose Screen

I was thinking of having a death screen similar to conker's bad fur day where you see what happens to the character if you fail or something similar to Earthbound’s death screen with its more mysterious vibes. But most likely i would like a death screen that is clean and simple which allows the player to quickly return to playing the game.

I was planning on having a basic Lose Screen template that would have a different image or quote depending on where the player died or how he died and by who. For example if killed by a boss you would see a quote by the boss taunting the player with them laughing. The lose screens are gonna have three simple buttons. Restart, load and quit, cause having a cluttered screen with useless buttons and stuff would not be effective or necessary. The colours of these screens will be dark, grey and white to show that your character has died. Different colours will be used for things like showing the corpse of the player or a boss laughing at the player.

The win screen is gonna be overhauled on to the game and you will see the character walk off screen which will then show text that you have completed the level but the journey is not over. After that the player will be booted to the world map. I wanna keep the win screen very minimal and quick so the player can quickly return to playing the game and not look at boring statistics that the player really doesn’t care about.